 | Stoddard A. Felter - 1864 - 412 σελίδες
...represents the frustum of a cone. 356. A Sphere is a solid, bounded by a convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre; as, Fig. 23. 357. A Spheroid is a solid, generated by the revolution of an ellipse about one of -p-llr... | |
 | Thomas Baker (C.E.) - 1865 - 174 σελίδες
...being triangular, or square, or hexagonal, &c. 7. A cone is a round pyramid, having a circular base. 8. A sphere is a solid bounded by one continued convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. — The sphere maybe conceived... | |
 | Henry Pallett - 1866 - 354 σελίδες
...far fly-v,hetli, etc., etc. A circle is a figure bounded by a curved line, called the circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre. The diameter is a straight line passing through the centre, and terminated both ways 'by the circumference. Rule.... | |
 | Rolla Rouse - 1867 - 228 σελίδες
...oblique cone, is the height or altitude. (235.) SPHERE OR GLOBE. Is a figure terminated at all parts by a surface, every part of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. (236.) SEGMENT of a pyramid, sphere, or other solid, is a part cut off the top by a plane parallel... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - 1867 - 1204 σελίδες
...polygon.'* But, on the contrary, 'A circle is a plane figure, bounded by a curved line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre.'^ Now, here, as in all other works on Geometry, the polygon and the circle are defined as separate and... | |
 | Joseph Ray - 1857 - 358 σελίδες
...diagonal of the square. 19. A CIRCLE is a figure bounded by a curvo line, called the circumference, every part of •which is equally distant from a point within, called the center. A DIAJIETEK is a straight line passing through the center and terminated both ways by the... | |
 | Henry Kiddle - 1868 - 300 σελίδες
...ellipse may be nearly expressed by .5. 30. A SPHERE, or GLOBE, is a round body every point of the surface of which, is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. 31. A HEMISPHERE is a half of a globe. 32. The DIAMETER of a sphere is a straight line drawn * Major... | |
 | Edward Brooks - 1868 - 284 σελίδες
...angles. BOOK IV. OF TJHE CIRCLE. DEFINITIONS. 1. A CIRCLE is a plane bounded by a curve line, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. 2. The CIRCUMFERENCE is the bounding lino of a circle. An ARC is any part of the circumference; as,... | |
 | George Augustus Walton, Electa Nobles Lincoln Walton - 1869 - 350 σελίδες
...a slate, is a plane surface. Fig. 1. Fig 2. 326. A plane surface, as in Pig. 1, bounded by a line, every part of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre, is a Circle. 3*37. The bounding line is called the Circumference of the circle. Anj' part of the circumference... | |
 | Wilshire S. Courtney - 1869 - 532 σελίδες
...centre is called the minor diameter. A Sphere is a solid, bounded by a convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the centre ; as, Fig. 22. A Spheroid is a solid, generated by the revolution of an ellipse about one of its diameters.... | |
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A sphere is a solid, bounded by one continued convex surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within, called the centre. 
